Premiere Pro CS4 is the flagship movie making software from Adobe. It allows the full creation of a movie from capture, through editing and output to various formats, including DVD, FLV, MP4 and Blueray. This course, authored by freelance filmmaker Mark Struthers of ENERGY STUDIOS, illustrates many tips and tricks that can be integrated into your own Premiere projects. An assortment of movie clips, photographs and audio files that were used throughout the course are made available for practice purposes.

Effect Butter imitates the oily painting. Even with tuning it is "by default possible" to obtain a realistic result strikingly. And playing with parameters, to get the most various styles of the oily painting. Painting is laid on in natural way, as if under a paintbrush. And before you picture. Funnily allows to model an effect pictures in style of comics or mul'tfil'mov. Only after a few a klikov mouse can get "drawn" poster, stilizovannuyu illustration, with a plot "sketching" from the world of animation. In basis of this style is a technique of isohel (posterizacii), that image of tones the limited amount transfer. The reception of isohel is widely used in an artistic picture and design for achievement of graphic effect.

The effect of Pero and inks allows to create from a picture an odnocvetnyy picture, executed a feather by inks or carcass. Due to the advanced algorithm and contour manner of execution a result looks stylish and professionally. you will apply this effect to the ordinary picture, and it will grow into work of art. And involving the functions of canvas additionally, you will get the picture of master on an old paper. In the version of 3.0: - an effect is Improved "Funnily": an algorithm is done and parameters are changed, a result became far better; - new artistic style — "Feather and inks is Presented"; - presety is Added for style "Butter"; - possibility of import/export of presetov Appeared (the list of presetov is unique for every style); it is the New interface of the program; - options, allowing to choose the scale of image at a load and renewal of the last used parameters for each, appeared In the program settings ...

Effect Butter imitates the oily painting. Even with tuning it is "by default possible" to obtain a realistic result strikingly. And playing with parameters, to get the most various styles of the oily painting. Painting is laid on in natural way, as if under a paintbrush. And before you picture. Funnily allows to model an effect pictures in style of comics or mul'tfil'mov. Only after a few a klikov mouse can get "drawn" poster, stilizovannuyu illustration, with a plot "sketching" from the world of animation. In basis of this style is a technique of isohel (posterizacii), that image of tones the limited amount transfer. The reception of isohel is widely used in an artistic picture and design for achievement of graphic effect.

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AKVIS Retoucher - Plug-in for the restoration of images, and retouch photos.
The program helps to remove scratches, spots, dust, traces of the fold, and other defects; remove unnecessary details, the text, to reconstruct missing parts of pictures, "delay" holey space and increase the ragged edge.

AKVIS Chameleon - program to create collages, realistic and fantastic.
Chameleon saves time and effort, as it does not require precise selection of objects automatically smooths the boundary and select color scheme "insert" to the background color.

AKVIS MultiBrish - a set of brushes for editing images.
The program allows you to correct the selected areas of photos with little effort: to change the saturation and sharpness, размазать object tinted area and restore the mask, remove unwanted objects and create an art collage.

AKVIS Sketch is a plugin for conversion of photos into pencil sketches and watercolor drawings. Surprise your friends with realistic color and B&W drawings that imitate the technique of graphite and color pencil, charcoal and watercolor. You can process the image with the default settings and then touch up the drawing adding color or trying different techniques. It's a wonderful tool for those who have always wanted to draw but didn't know how.

AKVIS Sketch is software for conversion of photos into pencil sketches and watercolor drawings. Now you do not need to handle a pencil to feel like an artist. All you need to create your original work of art is good taste and AKVIS Sketch. Our efficient method allows creating realistic color and B&W drawings that imitate the technique of graphite and color pencil, charcoal and watercolor painting.

Animated Wallpaper while running the new Aero Midnight theme.
Enhanced texturing support for greater speed.

Save your desktop as a suite. WindowBlinds

This is a slightly modified version of the Aero Midnight suite that comes with Object Desktop 2009 MyColors

Object Desktop has been licensed to companies to create their own branded desktops such as the NBA, the NHL, the NCAA, Microsoft, nVidia, ATI, Dell, Blizzard, Good Year, and many others. Deskscapes

Animate your wallpaper on your Windows Vista desktop. ThemeManager

Theme Manager supports applying suite files but also MyColors themes.

Theme Manager doesn't just apply suites, it can interface with the individual programs. Bootskin

BootSkin is a program that allows users to change their Windows XP or Vista boot screens.

AKVIS presents the cutting edge technology of automatic photo colorizing that will change your ideas about image colorization forever!

AKVIS Coloriage manipulates colors of an image: from colorizing old black and white photos from your family archive to replacing colors in your color photos.

Make a present for your grandmother by adding color to her school photo, replace the colors of your car to see how it would look in scarlet, see how you will look if you dye your hair red.

AKVIS Coloriage creates natural-looking colorization in a quick and entertaining manner. It works equally well for coloring of portraits, landscapes, fashion, and still life. The skin, sky, verdure, and tree color patterns help users to select realistic colors for their picture.

Apply your creativity and you will find a wide variety of other usages for the software. You can create colorful backgrounds out of ordinary dull pictures, you can apply AKVIS Coloriage to get rid of the red eye effect, to make selective color correction, selective desaturation and colorizing, etc.

AKVIS Coloriage is as easy to use as a coloring book. No layers manipulation, no complicated techniques, no more hours of frustration attempting to get just the look you want - everything is done with a few brush strokes. Indicate the desired colors by the stroke of the brush; the program does the rest of the work: recognizes the object's border and tailors the new color to the grayscale tones of the initial picture.

AKVIS Stamp is a photo retouching tool for seamless defects removal and object cloning. The field of AKVIS Stamp application ranges from portrait enhancement (as it brilliantly removes wrinkles, scars, scratches, and "treats" porous skin) to retouching of various image flaws (spots, stains, dust), removing unwanted objects and artistic cloning. Unlike common cloning tools that have a bit of a problem when it comes to pasting the cloned object into a picture with complicated color transitions, AKVIS Stamp boasts automatic adjusting of the "patches" to the color range, texture and brightness of the target background. As a result the restored part of the image or the cloned object blends into the original background and looks absolutely natural.

Magnifier v.2.0 - Change Image Size without Quality Loss
AKVIS Magnifier is an efficient tool for increasing image resolution.
AKVIS Magnifier is available in two editions: a plugin (Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements) and a standalone program .
Both variants support color modes RGB, Grayscale, CMYK, Lab; 8/16/32 bits per channel.

AKVIS Magnifier is an efficient tool for increasing image resolution.

AKVIS Magnifier allows resizing images without noticeable loss in quality. If you attempt to blow up a picture (increase its resolution) using the standard Resize command of a photo editor, you will notice that the resulting photo is blurred and pixelated. The reason is that the input photo didn't contain enough information for the new size. AKVIS Magnifier will cope with this problem and deliver good results.

Featuring advanced enlargement algorithms, Magnifier enlarges digital pictures to super-high resolution for producing stunning poster-size prints. The algorithm keeps edges smooth, sharp and clearly defined, while improving image appearance by removing unwanted noise and compression artifacts.

Resizing pictures with AKVIS Magnifier yields a much higher quality than simple bicubic interpolation. Depending on particular needs, AKVIS Magnifier can be fine-tuned to produce images that look exactly as required for a given purpose. The software allows enlarging an image to a super-high resolution of up to 30000x30000 pixels, making a 100x100 inch (2.5x2.5 meter) poster easily printable at typographic quality of 300dpi.

If you take a photo of a black cat in a dark room the result can be far from ideal. Or if you make a photo of a beautiful view but the automatic settings focus on the sky and the shot comes out with uneven exposure - the sky is beautiful but the scenery is underexposed and one can hardly understand what is on. With the standard tools of exposure correction you run the risk of spoiling the parts of the image that were good. But AKVIS Enhancer offers an individual approach to every part of the photo.

AKVIS Chameleon is an efficient tool for photo collage creation. It automatically adjusts the pasted object to the target image color range and smoothes the object's borders. The tool is very easy to handle as it does not require precise selection of objects. You copy an object, insert it into another picture, press the button and the object adjusts to the new background as chameleons do - adapting to the new color range and blending with the environment.

The Decorator plug-in allows you to change the surface of an object in a realistic manner.
Select a part of an image – a dress on a girl, a car, a piece of furniture, etc, and apply new textures to it. The girl can have her dress painted in gay patterns, dotted or chequered, appear as if made of velvet or satin, or even of wood or candies. There is a great variety of built-in patterns to apply - from fabrics to stones and metal, from food to nature elements.

You can apply your own textures – just save a square pattern as a jpg file and load it into the library.

Unlike the "bucket-fill" tool in many photo editors, the plug-in follows the underlying features of the object, the texture that already exists, and makes the new color or texture look natural.

Applying a snake scale to a car’s surface can be fun, but of more practical use is to apply AKVIS Decorator for design purposes.
With this software you can quickly choose a suitable design for your apartment by playing with different colors and patterns for furniture, walls, curtains, decorations, etc. It’s useful for designers to show the customers the same room in different versions or for web-designers to represent the same items in an online shop (china-ware, blankets, clothes, piece of furniture, etc) in different colors/patterns.

By AKVIS tradition, the program has a simple interface, easy grasped even for newbies. In the plug-in’s window you go to the Texture tab and select a texture from the library (you can adjust its color and frequency of the pattern), press the Run button and get a wonderful result. If needed, you can adjust the brightness and the angle of lighting.
If all you need is just to change the color of the surface, then you go to the Color tab and choose a new color.

AKVIS ArtSuite is an impressing collection of versatile effects for decoration of photos.

Decorate a photo to give it an original and festive look! You may need it on many occasions: when creating a postcard for your friends, making a holiday album, a personalized desktop wallpaper, or just playing with your images "for art's sake".

The software offers over 17 basic effects that allow creating an endless number of effect versions.

The effects are grouped as follows:
Edge Effects (Photo Frames) let you generate a photo frame for your photo. Add elegance and style to your image by putting it into a classic frame with wood carving or create a funny picture by adding it some cheerful frogs.

Photo frames samples that come with ArtSuite can be easily tailored to your particular photo. Select a color for the frame; choose its form, its style, brightness, and the intensity of the applied edge effect. You can create a frame with ragged edges, scratched surface, a page curl, etc. It can be a wooden frame with figured carving or a frame with an ornament. If you enjoy working with layers, you will appreciate the possibility to apply a transparent frame, so that the lower layer(s) could serve as background.
Create your own unique frames! Save a square or rectangular pattern as a graphic file and use it to generate an original photo frame. The result can be astounding!
Artistic Effects allow experimenting with photos – convert a photo into a B&W image and consequently add a color shade to it; replace colors on an image, add a texture (chosen from the built-in Texture Library or one created by the user) so that the image looks like drawn on a canvas, brick wall, corrugated paper, etc.

AKVIS SmartMask is a photoshop filter that can Save time on making complex selections.why you lost details while you making sellestions(like hair for example)? check it out!

AKVIS SmartMask is an efficient selection tool that saves you time and is fun to use. Never before has selection been so simple! There are many occasions when you have to make a selection. When processing an image, you will often need to mark up an area to which an effect or a correction should be applied. Photo collage and photo montage creation requires thorough selection of objects.However, making selection can be a painstaking job because many objects don't have clearly defined edges and fade into the background. Just try selecting yourself on a group photo.

AKVIS SmartMask makes even a difficult selection as easy as pie. Now, you can spend less of your time on selection of objects and more of it on creativity.The idea is so simple that you will feel like a child in drawing classes: there are two pencils (red and blue); you draw a line with the blue pencil inside the object you want to select (for example, yourself on a group photo), and with the red pencil - some lines outside the object, to define the areas that should be cut out (other guys in the photo).The program miraculously reads your thoughts and makes the selection you want - understanding where the borders of the object end.There are three modes tailored to different selection types: Sharp, Soft and Complex.For example, in the Soft mode a green pencil is added, that helps you to define difficult parts - fluff, hair, fur. In cases where the selected object stands against a background of a similar color range, or the object's edges are uneven, you can use the touch-up brush in the Complex mode.

Help Fiona realise her dream of running her very own fix-it shop. Responding to calls from local businesses she must maintain their madcap machines, including the 'Penguin Distractor', a 'Far Removed Spinner' and the highly improbable 'Theoretical Hoover'.
Keep over 80 crazy machines running smoothly by quickly turning their red warning lights off. Each machine is made up of various fun and wacky controls such as cranks, pull cords, guitar strings, egg timers, gearsticks and even a TV game system complete with its own joystick. Be quick or the whole thing will go up in smoke!
System Mania provides fast paced time management gameplay in a unique and exciting format. With two game modes and loads of frantic, fun packed levels, System Mania offers fantastic value for money.

Game features:
• 90 out of control machines to tame.
• Two game modes and a challenge option.
• All new time management based gameplay.
• A variety of fun controls to try out.
• Loads of bonuses to earn and collect.
• Compelling characters and storyline.
• DirectX based sound and visual FX.

Breathe life into your black and white photos with AKVIS Coloriage!
AKVIS presents the cutting edge technology of automatic photo colorizing that will change your ideas about image colorization forever!
AKVIS Coloriage manipulates colors of an image: from colorizing old black and white photos from your family archive to replacing colors in your color photos.
Make a present for your grandmother by adding color to her school photo, replace the colors of your car to see how it would look in scarlet, see how you will look if you dye your hair red.

Features :
AKVIS Coloriage creates natural-looking colorization in a quick and entertaining manner. It works equally well for coloring of portraits, landscapes, fashion, and still life. The skin, sky, verdure, and tree color patterns help users to select realistic colors for their picture.

Apply your creativity and you will find a wide variety of other usages for the software. You can create colorful backgrounds out of ordinary dull pictures, you can apply AKVIS Coloriage to get rid of the red eye effect, to make selective color correction, selective desaturation and colorizing, etc.

AKVIS Coloriage is as easy to use as a coloring book. No layers manipulation, no complicated techniques, no more hours of frustration attempting to get just the look you want - everything is done with a few brush strokes. Indicate the desired colors by the stroke of the brush; the program does the rest of the work: recognizes the object's border and tailors the new color to the grayscale tones of the initial picture.

AKVIS Sketch
AKVIS Sketch is software for conversion of photos into pencil sketches and watercolor drawings. Now you do not need to handle a pencil to feel like an artist. All you need to create your original work of art is good taste and AKVIS Sketch. Our efficient method allows creating realistic color and B&W drawings that imitate the technique of graphite and color pencil, charcoal and watercolor painting.
In contrast to the similar standard filters (like the built-in filters in Photoshop or PSP) that offer an approximate sketch, AKVIS Sketch provides a convincing result; it comes very close to hand-drawn works of a human artist. Getting a similar result with the standard tools would require expertise in image editing and extensive manipulation with layers, masks, brushes and applying filters.
AKVIS Sketch has a neat interface with a few sliders. At first you can process the image with the default settings and then touch up the photo adding color, or trying different techniques - from pencil to charcoal or watercolor. You can make the hatching denser or finer and change the pitch angle of strokes.
Home users will be delighted by the neat result of the photo-to-sketch conversion. AKVIS Sketch can bring a lot of fun: a pencil portrait can be a good present for your relatives and friends, a watercolor drawing obtained from your last nature shooting can decorate your room, you can convert any photo to an original drawing to print on a T-Shirt.

3D-Brush
Key features of 3D-Brush:
1) At input you provide an OBJ file of 1-100 thousand polygons, preferrably with UV-mapping in place, at output you get either an object of 1-10 million polygons or textures of normals, displacement, color, transparency and specular. Maximal texture size is 4096 per 4096. Fully seamless texturing provided!
2) Possibility to draw relief detailing, color, specular and transparency on model's surface.
3) All you previously did in 2D now can be done in 3D ?? editing with layers, cloning surface areas, image transforming on surface, Copy/Paste, filling sealed areas, gradient filling, filling area inside contour, darkening, lightening, smoothening, sharping and so on.

The ultimate utility for tweaking and getting the most out of Windows Vista performance is here! TweakVista allows users to modify many hard to access or hidden system settings to increase the performance of Windows Vista. The program was designed for both casual and power users to easily, and safely use it without fear of causing damage as the changes are easily reversible. For the "greener" users, TweakVista includes a new Carbon Footprint feature which shows both the carbon footprint and estimated running costs of your PC. TweakVista also uses the powerful Vista assessment features to give users a thorough benchmark of their systems. TweakVista is available stand-alone, or as a part of the Object Desktop suite.

AKVIS Sketch is software for conversion of photos into pencil sketches and watercolor drawings. Now you do not need to handle a pencil to feel like an artist. All you need to create your original work of art is good taste and AKVIS Sketch. Our efficient method allows creating realistic color and B&W drawings that imitate the technique of graphite and color pencil, charcoal and watercolor painting.

In contrast to the similar standard filters (like the built-in filters in Photoshop or PSP) that offer an approximate sketch, AKVIS Sketch provides a convincing result; it comes very close to hand-drawn works of a human artist. Getting a similar result with the standard tools would require expertise in image editing and extensive manipulation with layers, masks, brushes and applying filters.

AKVIS Sketch has a neat interface with a few sliders. At first you can process the image with the default settings and then touch up the photo adding color, or trying different techniques - from pencil to charcoal or watercolor. You can make the hatching denser or finer and change the pitch angle of strokes.

Home users will be delighted by the neat result of the photo-to-sketch conversion. AKVIS Sketch can bring a lot of fun: a pencil portrait can be a good present for your relatives and friends, a watercolor drawing obtained from your last nature shooting can decorate your room, you can convert any photo to an original drawing to print on a T-Shirt.